scholarly journals Architect Dušan Babić: Reconstruction of identity

Nasledje ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 61-79
Author(s):  
Ivan Marković ◽  
Milan Milovanović
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
West European

To this day, the Belgrade oeuvre of architect Dušan Babić has not been subjected to broader historiographic research, making the elements of his architectural vocabulary all the more difficult to define and evaluate. The available archival material does provide valuable insights into the life of architect Babić and his works in the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1927 and 1946. He produced over fifty designs for residential and mixed use buildings (comprising both commercial and residential space), several churches and the crematorium in Belgrade, simultaneously participating in at least ten big state competitions with notable entries, such as the designs for the Terazije slope, the Princes' Palace in the Dedinje Royal Compound, the Veterans Club building, etc. In the diversity of movements, styles and trends developing in Serbia between the two world wars as a result of the surge of predominantly West European cultural influences, the application and modification of modern architecture principles formed the mainstay of Babić's creative endevours. Stereometric forms, cubic volumes, unadorned facades, and strict lines were refined with often more freely interpreted bas-relief ornamentation, free standing sculptures or geometric forms. Babić made an effort to turn each and every structure into a unique architectural experience, especially by dynamically interpreted drawings of perspective and accentuated details.

scholarly journals Cultural Influences on Traditional and Modern Architecture in Ijebu-Ode

2021 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Kayode Olatunji Kazeem ◽  
Ayodele Emmanuel Ikudayisi ◽  
Oluwatobi Gbenga Adelakun
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Modern Architecture

scholarly journals Architecture competition proposals in the body of work of the KKK Group (1931–1939) in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 147-173
Author(s):  
Cela Matan
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The Body ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia ◽  
Crucial Part

Jovan Korka, Đorđe Krekić and Georg Kiverov are important protagonists of modern Croatian architecture. The three architects worked together in the KKK Group (name derived from their last names) between 1931 and 1939 in Zagreb. During this period, “the group” produced an impressive mass of work including the realisation of public and residential buildings in Croatia and the region; participated in competitions in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia with brilliant design solutions; held exhibitions and published several professional papers. Famous from the beginning of their professional work in Croatia's capital, in the second half of the 1920s, they were forgotten after WWII. Their names emerged in almost every compilation or architectural guide of modern Croatian architecture due to the built edifices that were the outcome of the member's efforts in competitions, and yet for a long time, very little was known about the authors and especially about the KKK Group. Only recently is their body of work being studied systematically. This article deals with competition projects, the unexplored body of work of the Group, and a crucial part in their success. In twenty instances of participation in competitions currently known, in only eight years of collaboration, the group was awarded 14 times (individually and jointly), often with one of the first three awards. A chronological overview of competition participation and a more detailed analysis of five available joint competition entries was carried out as a contribution to the valorisation of the body of work of these important and yet forgotten protagonists of modern architecture in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and especially in Croatia.

The “Corporeality” of the Image in Walter Gropius’ Monumentale Kunst und Industriebau Lecture

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Mejía Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
South American ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
Lantern Slide ◽  
Photographic Slides ◽  
North And South ◽  
Walter Gropius

The introduction of a series of traded photographs of North and South American Silos into the discourse of modern architecture has been generally attributed to the German architect Walter Gropius when he published the photographs in the 1913 Jahrbuch des Deutschen Werkbundes. What remains overlooked is the photographs’ original dissemination platform: Gropius’ Monumentale Kunst und Industriebau Lichtbildervortrag [lantern slide lecture] from 1911. Based on a close reading of archival material – first the original lecture manuscript, which indicates that images and text were merged in performance, and then the photographic slides – this paper argues that the projector’s agency enables the foundation of these iconic buildings’ architectural criticism. Indeed such criticism actually takes place in the ephemeral space of the projection, rather than in the various printed media where it is usually located.

scholarly journals Ellington under Glass

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Jan Frohburg
Keyword(s):  
Performance Art ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Post War ◽  
Architectural Pedagogy

In November 1957 Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall at IIT broke with convention when it became the venue for a jazz concert by Duke Ellington and his orchestra. This extraordinary event is reconstructed based on personal recollections, campus newspapers and other archival material. In the context of architectural pedagogy Crown Hall is appreciated as a supreme expression of Mies’s architectural philosophy, both for its spatial openness and its spiritual character. Here, influences from Mies’s own evolution as an architect intersected with developments in modern music and performance art it inspired. Parallels are uncovered between Ellington’s jazz and Mies’s steel and glass architecture, both distinctly American idioms that characterise post-war modernity. The Ellington concert at Crown Hall presented the perfect synthesis of people, space, light, music and nature. At the same time it attested to the disruptive potential that exists in jazz and modern architecture alike.

scholarly journals BANOVINAS – ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS OF KING ALEXANDER I KARAĐORĐEVIĆ AND HIS PERSONAL REGIME

2020 ◽  
pp. 232-253
Author(s):  
PREDRAG M. VAJAGIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia ◽  
Second World

One of the main consequences of the King Alexander I Karađorđević’s personal regime was an administrative rearrangement of the state that formed new administrative units called banovinas. Historiography to date has not shed much light on the circumstances under which the banovinas were formed. Studies show that this issue occupied much of the attention of the king and his court, and that the best experts were engaged. At the beginning of the dictatorship, banovinas and their bans were used as a means through which the proclaimed ideology of Yugoslavism would come into being in the form of a single Yugoslav nation. The starting point was to remove national and historical borders between Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which were regarded as the culprits behind divisions within the population. Presenting federalization as derived through banovinas as administrative units served to conceal their true function in the process of building a unified state. Following the death of King Alexander I Karađorđević, there was an abundance of support for the idea of banovinas as administrative units and as part of the foundation of the Yugoslav state. After only ten years, the borders of the banovinas, as defined by the September constitution, were changed due to the creation of the Banovina of Croatia. This act annulled all the principles of the 1929 administrative rearrangement. The further fate of the banovinas was determined by the Second World War, in which the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as a state disappeared. Based on an analysis of available archival material, periodicals, memoirs of contemporaries and historiographical publications, the intention of this study is to show how the banovinas, as new administrative units, were used to serve the king’s personal dictatorship. Opinions of the Banovinas as parts of the administrative system are mostly negative. However, in a broader context, they brought progress and prosperity to certain areas of the state.

scholarly journals Stevan Ivanić (1884–1948) – prilog za biografiju

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-37
Author(s):  
Jelena Jovanović Simić ◽  
Dragomir Bondžić
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia ◽  
Social Affairs

Stevan Ivanić was a Serbian physician and head of the Health Services in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A Socialist in his youth, in 1934 he joined the Zbor movement and promoted right-wing ideological views. He was commissar of social affairs and public health in 1941, and after the war he went into exile, where he died in 1948. The Communist authorities proclaimed him a criminal and traitor. So far, Ivanić’s biography has been available only in short encyclopedia entries. This paper is an attempt to supplement it with data from available archival material, periodicals and published literature and to present a fuller view of his professional and ideological-political activities and positions.

scholarly journals Cultural Influences on Traditional and Modern Architecture in Ijebu-Ode

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayode Olatunji Kazeem
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Building Type ◽  
Traditional Area ◽  
The Town ◽  
Modern Building

Technology, available materials, economy, culture and host of other factors influence man’s dwelling and play important roles in determining the type of building he inhabits. However, little research has been carried out in order to determine the influences of culture on both traditional and modern architecture in Nigeria. The aim of this research project, therefore, is to determine and compare the influences of culture on the traditional and modern building types in Nigeria using Ijebu-Ode as a case study. Questionnaires were randomly administered both in Ita-Alapo and Obalende representing traditional and modern areas of the town respectively. Also, building typologies were randomly selected in both areas and were compared in terms of building quality, form and techniques. The results gathered were then analyzed descriptively with the use of tables and charts showing their frequencies, mean and rank. The analysis revealed that while security was the first factor that influences the types of building in the modern area (Obalende), it was the people’s family structure that determines their building type in the traditional area (Ita-Alapo). The research concluded by recommending that Nigerian architects should always endeavor to consider and incorporate the people’s culture into their designs, especially when designing where they will live.

scholarly journals Public affective appraisal for urban design of the CBD of Nairobi

2002 ◽  
Vol 69 (415-417) ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
Francis M. Mburu
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Physical Setting ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Business District ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Mr Mburu , an architect and town planner, is a graduate of the University of Nairobi - with additional studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand - where his research focused mainly on the"Influence of Physical Setting on Behaviour of Mentally Retarded Children" and "Planning for Pedestrians in the Central Business District (CBD) of Nairobi." He is currently Lecturer, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, where he has conducted research on projects such as "Modern Architecture in East Africa," "Urban Continuity and Change - A Case of Pre-industrial Towns on the East Coast of Africa" and "Traditional Architecture in Kenya. " The author has also been involved in practice, specifically on the design and supervision of institutional, housing, mixed-use buildings, recreational, cultural and health projects. Mr Mburu is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows was distributed to participants at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.

Immunoelectron microscopic localization of elastic tissue in archival material using an improved method

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 794-795
Author(s):  
J. C. Fanning ◽  
J. F. White ◽  
R. Polewski ◽  
E. G. Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Normal Animal ◽  
Animal Tissue ◽  
Elastic Tissue ◽  
Human Tissues ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Tissue Samples ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Immuno Electron Microscopy ◽  
Arteries And Veins ◽  
Biochemical Examination

Elastic tissue is an important component of the walls of arteries and veins, of skin, of the lungs and in lesser amounts, of many other tissues. It is responsible for the rubber-like properties of the arteries and for the normal texture of young skin. It undergoes changes in a number of important diseases such as atherosclerosis and emphysema and on exposure of skin to sunlight.We have recently described methods for the localizationof elastic tissue components in normal animal and human tissues. In the study of developing and diseased tissues it is often not possible to obtain samples which have been optimally prepared for immuno-electron microscopy. Sometimes there is also a need to examine retrospectively samples collected some years previously. We have therefore developed modifications to our published methods to allow examination of human and animal tissue samples obtained at surgery or during post mortem which have subsequently been: 1. stored frozen at -35° or -70°C for biochemical examination; 2.

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